Mother and 3 Little Children Killed When Moving Wagon Upsets

Article taken from The Zanesville Signal, February 3, 1926

Portsmouth, O., Feb. 2. - Three members of a family of four were dead today at Warnock near here, as the result of a highway tragedy.

A wagon loaded with household goods turned over on the Tygert dumping Mrs. Edward Webb and her two children, Billy, 7, and Beatrice, 18 months old into the creek. All three were drowned. The baby's neck was broken.

Edward Webb, the father, and E.C. Martin, who were driving, escaped. The party hailed from Firebrick, a village near Portsmouth.